A Texas Blue Bonnet

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A Texas Blue Bonnet

by Caroline Emilia Jacobs

EN·~8 hours·22 chapters

Chapters

22 total

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

0:29

CHAPTER I BLUE BONNET

17:31

CHAPTER II ELIZABETH

20:45

CHAPTER III TO MEET MISS ELIZABETH ASHE

20:33

CHAPTER IV SCHOOL

20:19

CHAPTER V AN INVITATION

18:36

CHAPTER VI TEA-PARTY NUMBER TWO

18:39

CHAPTER VII THE CLIMAX

24:38

CHAPTER VIII MR. HUNT

20:16

CHAPTER IX VICTOR

24:15

Description

Blue Bonnet, a headstrong teen raised on a sprawling Texas ranch, spends her days drifting between the wide‑open prairie and the cramped expectations of her family. She clings to her loyal collie, Don, while wrestling with a bitter sense that the land and its traditions are suffocating her spirit. When her uncle Clifford confronts her about her restless yearning to leave, the tension between duty and desire cracks open, exposing a fierce longing for a life far beyond the horizon of the Blue Bonnet Ranch.

The story follows her quietly rebellious heart as she grapples with the weight of a name she never chose and a legacy she feels compelled to reject. Through lingering afternoons on the veranda and heated exchanges in the garden, she begins to map out the possibilities of an Eastern future while the ranch’s stubborn roots pull her back. Listeners will feel the pull of home and the lure of the unknown as Blue Bonnet teeters on the brink of a decision that could reshape her whole world.

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Language

en

Duration

~8 hours (489K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

Oct 2, 2016

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

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Caroline Emilia Jacobs

1872–1909

Best known for warm, spirited stories for younger readers, this early-20th-century American novelist wrote books like The S. W. F. Club, Joan of Juniper Inn, and A Texas Blue Bonnet. She also published under the pen name Emilia Elliott, and her work continued to appear after her death in 1909.

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